An A-MAZing time!

As a new addition to our Applepalooza Event for the Pre-2 students, we built a hay bale maze.  I had lots of help planning the design of our maze.

 After our maze was planned, we started the hard work of building the maze.  We took hay bales from the hay barn, and, with the help of a wagon, hauled them over to the log cabin where the maze was being built.

Here is a "time-lapse" of the maze being built!  We had so much fun!

Potato Harvest!

One of my favorite vegetables to harvest from the garden with children has to be potatoes.  The excited look on their face when they first see the potato under the soil is priceless!

Check out the photos below from our potato harvest in the Lower Maka!

Welcome back!

We are so excited to be back in school!

The first thing we did was to go exploring in the woods!

We also found some yummy fruits and vegetables growing
 in the garden!

Looking forward to another great year!

Egg-citing news!

I'm very egg-cited to tell you that our chicken eggs 

have arrived!  

 41 hatching eggs arrived in the mail from Gabbard Farms.  They have a great website with lots of information.  Check them out here. 

We have three different varieties of chickens, Blue ameraucanas, black copper marans and barnevelders. These eggs are in the incubator and should hatch around May 22nd.

Leading up to the arrival of our eggs, we learned a little about eggs and what's on the inside.

We learned how strong egg shells really were.  One class had 20 large textbooks stacked on top of 4 eggs and they still didn't even crack!

 

Are you as strong as an egg?

We also discussed how to take care of the chicks once they hatched.  Some of the things that the kids were curious about were...

"How do we get the chicks to go to sleep at night?"
"What do they eat?"
"How do we get them to exercise?"
"Where are they going to live?"

We pretended to be birds in a nest, and learned what other animals, besides birds, come from eggs as well.